Car-door retainer and seal



(No Model.)

A. ROELOPS.

OAR DOOR RETAINER AND SEAL.

No. 412,795. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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ANTHONY ROELOFS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA.

CAR DOOR RETAINER AND SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 412,795, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed August 17, 1887. Serial No. 247,162. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY BoELors, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Oar-Door Retainers and Seals, of which the following is a specification.

The obj cct of my invention is to so construct a railway-car-door retainer and seal as to lesson the risk of accidental striking and injury of the seal and retainer, prevent accidental release of the retainer when it is not sealed, and permit the free movement of the door when released from the control of the retainer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of part of a car side and door with my improved retainer and seal; Fig. 2, a sectional plan View of part of the same on alarger scale; Fig. 3, asectional view, partly in elevation, on the line 1 2, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a similar view with the hasp in a different position, and Fig. 5 a perspective view of the sealing device.

A represents part of the side of a car, and 13 part of the door of the same, mounted on a track a, so as to be free to slide longitudinally, as usual. To the side of the car, adja cent to the rear of the doorway, is secured a socket-plate D, the flange of which is let in flush with the side of the ear, and is secured thereto by bolts and nuts or other suitable means. Projecting into the recess of the socket-plate are two staples b, to either of which may be applied a hasp cl, hung to a loop f on the rear of the car-door, the free end of said hasp being bent so as to enter the recess of the socket-plate for engagement with the staples therein. WVhen the hasp is in engagement with the staple nearest the door-opening, the door is closed; but when the door is slightly opened, as for ventilating the car, the hasp engages with the rear staple. There is also secured to the carside, some distance from the socketplate D, a similar plate D, with staple 1), whereby the hasp (Z may be retained when the door 13 is opened. The inner portion of each staple has a recess 2' in the top and a projection i at the bottom, so that said inner portion of the staple is in a lower plane than the outer portion, each portion being of substantially the same size as the opening in the hasp; hence, in or der to free the hasp from the staple, the lower portion of the hasp must first be moved outward until it is free-from the control of the projection t", and the hasp then lifted until its upper portion is removed from the recess 1 whereupon the hasp can be withdrawn in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 4.

It will thus be seen that, even in the absence of any retaining device, the hasp,when properly applied to the staple, is not likely to be accidentally released therefrom; butlform in the outer portion of the staple one or more openings g, (two in the present instance,) to either of which (after the hasp has been applied to the staple) may be fitted a seal consisting of a simple rivet m, of soft metalsuch, for instance, as is shown in Fig. 5the stem of this rivet being somewhat longer than the thickness of the staple, so that it projects beyond the same and can be upset by a pair of sealing-tongs or other suitable implement, whereby the seal is securely confined to the staple outside of the hasp, the heads of the seal overlapping the opening in thehasp, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and efiectually preventing any removal of said hasp without first destroying the seal.

It will be observed on reference to Fig. 2 that the staple to which the seal is applied is wholly within the limits of the socket D, so that there is no danger of injury to the seal or staple, as there would be if it. projected beyond the side of the ear.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, in a hasp and staple retainer for car-doors, of the door of the car, a soeketplate secured to the side of' the car flush with the face of the same, a staple contained wholly within the socket of said plate, and a hasp hung to the car-door and bent so as to enter the socket and receive the staple, substantially as specified.

2. The eombination,in a oar-door retainer, of a swinging hasp, with a staple having inner and outer portions, each of substantially the same size as the opening in the hasp, the outer portion being in a higher plane than the inner portion, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the soeket-plate se cured t0 the side of the car flush with the face In testimonywhereof I have signed my name of the same, a hasp hung to the door and bent to this specification in the presence of two subso as to enter the socket, a staple engaging scribing witnesses.

With the hasp, and a sealing-rivet applied to ANTHONY ROELOFS. the staple outside of the hasp, both staple and Witnesses:

rivet being Wholly Within the limits of the JOHN T. LEWIS,

socket, substantially as specified. HARRY SMITH. 

